We are getting word out of Omaha Nebraska that a nuclear plant in Fort Calhoun has sustained some type of damage due to the major flooding from the Missouri River.
The facility, which is operated by the Omaha Public Power District, has already had to pump water into a containment area to cool a pool of used nuclear fuel after a fire broke out at the site earlier this week. What’s crazy is there’s almost no coverage of this story anywhere. The only thing we could find was the video that we uploaded below. If you watch the news footage you will hear the local reporter says that they were told not to film what was going on.
We will be watching this story closely in the days to come.
There is no danger of a melt-down here because the actual reactor was shut down for refueling anyway. The danger is the pool filled with spent fuel rods. Even though no longer used to generate power, they are still capable of heating up because of decay processing still taking place. That is why they must be kept in cooling pools with circulating cold water (and usually boron to suppress neutron activity). If the cooling system fails, the spent fuel rods can heat up to the point where the water boils off. Once exposed to air, the spent fuel rods can then spontaneously burst into flames, sending radioactive smoke (uranium and plutonium oxides) downwind. This is what happened to the spent fuel rod pools at Fukushima.
The problem is not the reactor itself, but the spent fuel rods.
Nebraska Nuclear Plant at Level 4 Emergency
http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2011/06/nebraska-nuclear-plant-at-level-4-disaster/
Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
http://www.truth-out.org/electrical-fire-knocks-out-spent-fuel-cooling-nebraska-nuke-plant/1308155673
FAA Closes Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant
http://www.businessinsider.com/faa-closes-airspace-over-flooded-nebraska-nuclear-power-plant-2011-6
Back to the days of primitave man but without the culling before hand. What a mess we advanced bi pedal hominids have sown. I can’t wait to help evolution to speed up the process as we have allowed humans to have lived who should have, otherwise would have been ferterlizer, due to social programs and welfare. Whole generations of tards have grown and are now upsetting the delicate balance of nature. Oh well at least American idiot (Idol) will cease to exist.
Well, amazing how quiet a story can be made with enough money and the right lobbying groups. To bad BP didn’t have these guys working for them, as then the Gulf Oil Rig Disaster may of not happened and those millions of gallons of oil wouldn’t of had to be cleaned up.
Like the saying goes “What you don’t know won’t hurt me”, the Governor and the Nuclear Agency strong believe in this policy. i am sure they have all moved, or gone on vacation for a while till things blow over.